Welcome back Peter! (was Re: Gosh...)

[Chris Williams <chrisw@wwa.com>]

In article <32c9e522.41163721@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, p-lo@ix.netcom.com
(Peter Manchester) wrote:

>        Casting a broader view, we are at the nadir of the Lull--not
>to say the Abyss--between releases by our Principal, Ms. Bush.  Many
>worthies old and new have been keeping the fires stoked, keeping
>threads unfurling, keeping the group alluring to new discoverers.  But
>I have lain fallow for a year now; even for weeks at a time of late
>left off from lurking.  It has been months since I have even played
>any music, much less revisited our Lady.

>        Maybe this year comes the dawn.  I am almost completely
>escaped from administrative assignments, for starters.  I have learned
>my way around the Web and Usenet and am about to cut the thread to the
>digest.  Gaffa seems to be in great shape; it got through the annual
>thread about...the 'angel thing'...more gracefully than ever before.
>The archives are more brilliantly mounted now than any of us could
>have imagined even five years ago.

   Glad to hear that you have escaped the shackles of administrivia!

   On behalf of the Gaffaweb crew, thanks for the compliments.

>        Therefore pardon me this longwindedness, but I have missed
>being close to this newsgroup, am in the process of repenting for all
>my derelictions, and somehow--more palpably than faith, more solidly
>than hope, more conclusively than reason--"I just know that something
>good is going to happen!"

   She is back in the studio, so barring any need for a long vacation
or garden emergencies, we can expect something in a year or so.

>        Therefore welcome to 1997, and a Happy New Year to everyone!

   Very glad indeed to see you back.